Quote Originally Posted by Hound View Post
No what I am saying is that not all gov assistance is bad and not all captialism is good. As far as Gates how many industries were crushed by that monopoly. How many jobs lost to consolidate under the M$ umbrella. I lived watching them either buy you out or crush you with lawyers while they STOLE your idea. How many layoffs do we see as these mega mergers continue to kill competition. The constant worshipping at the alter of unregulated capitalism get us monopoly's that actually are the antithesis of true capitalism. Meanwhile we keep taking away assitance from those working 3 and 4 jobs to support their family castigating them as welfare sycophants. Some of the reply's here are just parroting the ultra right and are as bad as the ultra left. People serving our country are not Grasshoppers nor are people like my buddy in the press for taking government assistance. People like Bill Gates start off as the eptiomy of the American dream and then warp it into a self privledged horror story that affect and destroy the middle class by building monopoly's. Greed is not good and was the cause of the Great Depression and the Great Recession. I am not comparing Apples and Oranges I am pointing to the real Grasshoppers. Those that think because the have money they deserve more votes than the average man, those that don't pay what a person is worth, those that think the shareholders are more important than the workers that REALLY built the company that makes them so much money, those that think merging companies or laying off people just to get a quarterly spike is some how American. There is a class battle and unfortunatly many have been suckered into thinking they are on top of the pile when in fact they are on the bottom. BTW... Both the left and the right have their own way of continuing this race to the bottom. It is not all one sides fault.
I love this revisionist history... You do realize that free enterprise (now called "Capitalism") was what made this country great? Without a free market economy there would be no America and no pompous asshole President to tell us what we did/didn't build (ironic, yes?).

Keep in mind every time government intervenes to provide "assistance" they must take from someone else in order to provide that "assistance." (Using quotes because keeping people poor and dependent isn't really assistance) Government cannot create value/wealth they can only consume the value and wealth created in the private economy. And so they must literally put a gun to your neighbor's head to "even the playing field."

What that looks like at the street level is the middle class getting soaked. They are the ones who are marginally successful yet lack the ability to redistribute their tax burden on to others. And, unlike the Grasshoppers, April 15th isn't a payday for us. We must work and yet are denied the full benefit of our labor.

Meanwhile, the people who champion these ideas are getting insanely rich. You hate Gates? There is no end to the line of filthy rich collectivists telling us we need to sacrifice for the greater good. But instead you hate the people who live within their means and want to keep their paycheck? Which is actually their labor! And denying a man his labor makes him.... A SLAVE!

You are actually cheering your own enslavement. And you have every right to do so. But you have ZERO right to do that to me or my children.